110 Rimless

[murjan]

I have been working on a rimless 110g reef build for about 4 months now, I would like to share my work experience and results.
I always wanted to make a tank thread but did not, so this will be my first tank thread ever, and I hope for it to be enjoyable and informative to my fellow reefers.

A lot of what you will see here has been "DIYed" or "Customed" and i hope many people will find it helpful in their own project.

for now I will suffice with some photos, later on I will post as much details as possible. but please feel free to ask and also give advice if you think you saw something that is not quite right to your eye.

I have several questions too about chemistry and filtration that i would like to ask at some point to complete some missing parts in my head.

 

[Flameback Pair]

Subscribed.

 

[chefb_5]

wow that is crazy nice!

 

[AL1]

Sweet setup!! What lights??

 

[CastAway]

What are the small anemone looking things in the picture with the clown fish?

 

[murjan]

What are the small anemone looking things in the picture with the clown fish?

you must mean the frogspawn. the photos were taken when the lights was on for only 10 minutes which is why some coral look more miserable than they actually are, usually i get around 30% more extention and maybe over 60% with the bigger hammer colony in the middle.
Thanks all glad you liked it. more to come later...

Sweet setup!! What lights??

currently 6x24" T5 unit of which I am only running 4 tubes, this unit was for my previous 13g nano which was suffering in its last days. which all these corals and clown came from, the Anthia and the cardinal are the only new live stock for now.

Currently I am making a DIY light fixture that is suitable to my new requirements, which to be able to keep and grow some SPS corals as I have never been able to before in my old nano. Going to be a T5 LED hybrid setup to get the best out of each world, currently done with the t5 part of it and going to order an LED kit very soon to complete it. I was thinking to go with Steve's led kit for 34" tanks, which is advertised to replace around one 250w MH.. Any other thoughts?

here is a photo of the fixture I am building.

sorry for the bad photo quality.

 

[AL1]

Man that's a nice looking fixture! Congrats! Sounds like your on the path to success. That should be a nice combo!!

 

[murjan]

Man that's a nice looking fixture! Congrats! Sounds like your on the path to success. That should be a nice combo!!

thanks man! i hope the limitations i have here being in this part of the world doesn't affect the quality i am aiming to achieve.

Planning for an arduino controller too, already done with 50% of this.
i do not have high expectations of the controller, it will basically be for temp control, humidity control in the room, and timers for the lights and what not. maybe later i will extend it with more reef stuff like ph and conductivity.
and here is a photo for that:

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Beautiful tank!

 

[murjan]

Beautiful tank!

Thanks!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looks nice!

 

[murjan]

Looks nice!

Thanks, Glad you liked it.

 

[Eckolancer]

Looks good but you may want to get rid of the manjos before they take over and sting all your corals they multiply very fast

 

[murjan]

Looks good but you may want to get rid of the manjos before they take over and sting all your corals they multiply very fast

thanks a lot, do you mean majanos? where? would be great if you spotted one for me.

I had my fair share of Aiptasia back in the days, this tank is now free of this (i hope, i found decent one a few days ago and killed it). I started with base rock mainly for this reason, and the corals that came from my older tank were treated for 5 weeks for Algae and Aiptasia and i had to kill only 3 very small ones that made it here when i first started that i did not see in the 5 week treatment program.
Im using JJ which does the job for me.

 

[AL1]

Aiptasia is a nightmare!! I tried it all no luck only thing that worked was 100% lye (sodium hydroxide) mixed 50/50 with ro and injected directly into the mouth of those little *******s..it's basically pure drano..I know sounds scary but man no bad results to date.

 

[murjan]

Aiptasia is a nightmare!! I tried it all no luck only thing that worked was 100% lye (sodium hydroxide) mixed 50/50 with ro and injected directly into the mouth of those little *******s..it's basically pure drano..I know sounds scary but man no bad results to date.

Tell me about that. A friend of mine had a big infestation problem of them. However They survived living in 40f when a blizzard came to the country and shut down the grid for 5 days. And were as good as new when the power came back. Ofcourse he lost everything else but not the aiptasias!
Thanks for the info. ill sure will use this one day as jj and other products are not sold here at all.

how much cc do you recomend to keep under per session for a 110 gallon total volume?

 

[murjan]

doing the math here again and i think i was mistaken about my tank volume in gallons. we use liters over here.

it is 300 liters display which is 90 gallons. not 110 as opposed to the thread title.
i wonder what should i do about that.

 

[AL1]

Yeah there tough little pests, as far as the mixture goes...it really doesn't affect the tank too much from my experience however I wouldn't go bombing every aiptasia you see. Do maybe 10-20 and then give it a day and do some more. That's what has worked for me. You notice once you release it into the water it won't exactly mix with the water in your tank and will form some bubble like. If the excess falls on any coral just kind of wave it off. I always kill the pumps and powerheads to avoid it blowing all over the place. There's an article on it somewhere online I will try and find it and post the link. Or google using sodium hydroxide for aiptasia and it should come up...here ya go... http://www.reefscapes.net/articles/breefcase/aiptasia_control.html

 

[Eckolancer]

The fourth pic on far left below frog span looks like one. https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=119717&d=1390122561

 

[murjan]

Yeah there tough little pests, as far as the mixture goes...it really doesn't affect the tank too much from my experience however I wouldn't go bombing every aiptasia you see. Do maybe 10-20 and then give it a day and do some more. That's what has worked for me. You notice once you release it into the water it won't exactly mix with the water in your tank and will form some bubble like. If the excess falls on any coral just kind of wave it off. I always kill the pumps and powerheads to avoid it blowing all over the place. There's an article on it somewhere online I will try and find it and post the link. Or google using sodium hydroxide for aiptasia and it should come up...here ya go... http://www.reefscapes.net/articles/breefcase/aiptasia_control.html

big thanks for the nice article, i like how realistic he describes the problem and his solution.
however i will need to know exactly how concentrated the NaOH solution in 2N inorder to replicate that as im not sure if i can source it.
i will do the research about that when i use most of the jj i have. for now the tank looks aiptasia free to my eyes. i noticed after killing some of them they do a revenge thing and spit out a couple of really tiny ones around the area which i keep an eye for to treat incase this happen. and maybe thats all i have to worry about now.